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    1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1941st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini. It was the 2nd year of the 1940s decade and the 41st year of the 20th century. The year was marked by the start of World War II, the Battle of Bardia, the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of El Alamein, and the Battle of Guadalcanal.

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    A 1979 American war comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. The film depicts the chaos and panic in Los Angeles after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, with an ensemble cast including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and Christopher Lee.

  3. Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.

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  5. Soviet Union. , 1941. Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, June 22, 1941. For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted almost 150 divisions containing a total of about 3,000,000 men. Among these were 19 panzer divisions, and in total the “Barbarossa” force had about 3,000 tanks, 7,000 artillery ...

    • Japan and the Path to War. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been edging toward war for decades. The United States was particularly unhappy with Japan’s increasingly belligerent attitude toward China.
    • Where Is Pearl Harbor? Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is located near the center of the Pacific Ocean, roughly 2,000 miles from the U.S. mainland and about 4,000 miles from Japan.
    • USS Arizona. The Japanese plan was simple: Destroy the Pacific Fleet. That way, the Americans would not be able to fight back as Japan’s armed forces spread across the South Pacific.
    • Impact of the Pearl Harbor Attack. In all, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor crippled or destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes.
  6. 2 January: German bombers bomb Ireland for the second night in a row. 2–4 January: Bardia is bombed by British bombers and bombarded by naval vessels off shore. 3 January: RAF bombers attack Bremen and the Kiel Canal in Germany. The Kiel Canal Bridge suffers a direct hit and collapses on Finnish ship Yrsa.

  7. 6 days ago · World War II had begun. World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). It was the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in human ...

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